From left: Elder Toni Runnels, Nicolette Paige Davis, Juliza Marti and Amber Willis participated in a traditional Ifa purification ceremony along a stream in a KC park. Roy Inman Special to The Star ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their troubles. They pause to swig rum out of small brown ...

Vodou is Haiti’s ancestral spiritual tradition, developed by enslaved Africans and shaped by a mixture of African religions and Catholicism. It is a lived religion, a world view, and a cultural system ...

BOSTON - Two separate crimes against children in recent days have one haunting similarity: authorities have pointed to voodoo rituals as a possible motive. But practitioners of Haitian Vodou, which ...

Though Alain Pierre-Louis grew up in a Haitian family that attended Catholic church services most Sundays, he always felt a spiritual pull toward something else. Vodou, a Haitian religion rooted in ...

A North Carolina man is asking for answers after his mom died while on a Vodou retreat in Haiti. Dana Jackson, 51, wanted to become a Manbo priestess. A Manbo priestess “is a female ritual specialist ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of revelers clad in white and clutching candles crowded into the main cemetery at Haiti’s capital on Monday to pay their respects to the dead during an annual ...

Your Guide to KC: Star culture and identity writer J.M. Banks is acting as a tour guide of sorts to some well-known and hidden gems, with a focus on Kansas City’s communities of color. Send your ideas ...